Is Basket Mouth Nigeria's Richest Comedian?

Basket Mouth – After Ali Baba, Bright Okpocha, aka Basket Mouth, perhaps, is Nigeria’s biggest comedy brand; a fact that is not subject to much debate given his array of endorsement deals and multinational clients.


Not only has he remained enduring and consistent since his emergence as one half of a comedy partnership with Teju Babyface, the dreadlocks-spotting comic,  has been hailed as the one comedian who does not just know how to tell a joke but could conjure jokes from the most unlikely situations, situations where you never knew laughter existed. Spontaneous and talented, indeed, there has not been a higher earner in comedy in Nigeria in the last five years than this comedian who hails from Abia State.

Actually, Basketmouth started out as a rapper before comedy overrode that and it did not come as much surprise when he released a single recently entitled ‘Where you dey’,  featuring eLDee and Wizkid. He has opened an ultra-modern discotheque, bar and lounge in the university community of Yaba, Lagos – called EmBARssy.

Culled from PUNCH